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This position will be responsible for ensuring our data, cloud, and security systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.\nThis is the deepest technical seat on the network team. It owns how the network is designed: corporate, data center, cloud, and the media networks that carry live content, and it leads the team that runs it. The lead responsibility is real but informal. There are no direct reports. This role leads through design authority, technical credibility, and follow-through. On a lean team it is also a working role: the architect writes the configs, joins the maintenance window, and handles escalation for any outages or issues, and mentors other engineers.\nDepth is the point of this position. It is not a role for a generalist who reviews vendor diagrams. The successful candidate can defend a design decision under questioning, read a packet capture, and troubleshoot a problem at all hours. This role owns the architecture being right and the network staying up. This position will be the SME for all network and security infrastructure.\nKey Responsibilities\nNetwork Architecture\nPlan, design, and own the LAN,WAN,and hybrid onsite/cloud architecture. Provide a roadmap to keep architecture up to date and to encompass new technologies.\n\nProduce architect-grade documentation: designs with stated requirements, constraints, alternatives considered, failure modes, and a migration path. Not diagrams alone.\n\nMaintain IP/Vlan schemas and configuration standards.\n\nSet routing and switching standards - analyze traffic patterns, monitor network performance, and address any latency, network bottlenecks, or bandwidth issues.\n\nDesign for measurable resilience: no single points of failure on network paths, and a documented, tested behavior for every failure path.\n\nOwn capacity planning and technology lifecycle across the network; make the buy/refresh case with data.\n\nEvaluate platforms and vendors on technical merit and give management a defensible recommendation, including the option not to buy.\n\nPrepare project plans, budget estimates, and resources needed for any infrastructure deployments.\n\nTechnical peer to partner with other teams for operational or engineering needs.\n\nNetwork Security Architecture\nOwn Palo Alto firewall architecture: PAN-OS platform design, Panorama management, App-ID/User-ID policy model, decryption strategy, HA design, URL filtering, AI security, and geo-location firewall rules.\n\nOwn remote access and edge architecture - GlobalProtect, ZTNA/SASE direction, internet edge, and cloud connectivity.\n\nDesign segmentation and east-west controls, including microsegmentation strategy for the data center.\n\nEnsure logging and flow visibility reach network monitoring and security tools.\n\nKeep abreast of new URL categories, technologies, and vulnerabilities. Make recommendations where needed for upgrades, changes, new licenses, or new technologies.\n\nNetwork Operations Leadership (Soft Lead)\nOwn the operational health of the network day to day: monitoring, alerting, incident queue, change quality, code upgrades, policies, and procedures.\n\nSet the engineering standards the team builds to; review every significant change before implementation.\n\nOwn change planning and maintenance windows in a 24x7 environment - pre-checks, rollback, post-change validation, and coordination with on-air schedules.\n\nServe as the top escalation point for network incidents and lead technical bridge calls.\n\nOwn the postmortem and drive corrective actions to closure.\n\nMentor engineers and grow the bench so the team is not single-threaded.\n\nCoordinate with other business-unit technologists on shared work: agree on outcomes, publish expectations, follow up until closed.\n\nAct as the technical delegate in vendor, carrier, and architecture review sessions.\n\nCommunication\nWrite clearly. Designs, standards, change records, and incident narratives are deliverables of this role, held to the same standard as the engineering.\n\nPresent and defend architecture to technical peers, and translate the same decision into cost, risk, and on-air impact for executives.\n\nCommunicate during incidents on a defined cadence: what is known, what is not, what is being done, when the next update comes.\n\nGive management an accurate picture without prompting - what is on track, what is slipping, what needs a decision.\n\nOwnership & Accountability\nThis is stated explicitly because it is the primary filter for this role. The successful candidate:\nOwns the design and its consequences. A failure caused by an architecture decision is an architecture problem, not an operations problem.\n\nVerifies rather than assume - redundancy is proven by testing the failover, not by reading the diagram.\n\nSurfaces bad news early, with a recommendation attached.\n\nDoes not defer to a vendor SE for a decision this role should be making.\n\nTakes responsibility for the team's misses when leading the work, and gives credit for the wins.\n\nDo not let something fall because it sat outside the job description.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years in enterprise network engineering, with 3+ years in an architect or principal-level role.\n\nExpert-level routing and switching: BGP, OSPF, VXLAN/EVPN, multicast, QoS, high availability. Design-level, not just configuration level.\n\nDeep hands-on experience with Palo Alto (PAN-OS, Panorama) and Cisco platforms (Catalyst, Nexus, ACI, Meraki switches and routers).\n\nDemonstrated experience designing and operating networks in a 24x7 environment where downtime is externally visible.\n\nStrong troubleshooting discipline: packet capture, flow analysis, and structured fault isolation under pressure.\n\nTrack record of leading technical work through people who do not report to you.\n\nBachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\n\nPreferred\nCCIE, CCNP, Palo Alto certification, or equivalent depth demonstrated by work history.\n\nFamiliarity with multicast including protocol implementation and configuration\n\nExperience with a data center or facility build, migration, or consolidation.\n\nFamiliarity with network monitoring and network observability platforms\n\nSD-WAN and cloud connectivity design experience (Direct Connect / GCP Interconnect).\n\nAutomation or scripting for network config and validation (Python or equivalent).\n\nAI experience to accelerate troubleshooting and problem resolution, automate repetitive tasks, and increase operational efficiency\n\nAllen Media Group is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to these characteristics. 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